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Drama films

6 August 2024

  • Radical.

    Radical review – Mexico’s heartwarming answer to Dead Poets Society makes the grade

    Based on the true story of an inspiring teacher arriving in an impoverished school, this bullies you into uplift but succeeds thanks to its top quality cast

5 August 2024

  • Less lovable? … Together 99.

    Together 99 review – quarter-century renuion for Lukas Moodysson’s Swedish commune comedy

  • A scene from The Weak and the Wicked film

    The Weak and the Wicked/No Trees in the Street review – tough, old school British drama

4 August 2024

  • Zachary Levi and Benjamin Bottani in Harold and the Purple Crayon.

    Harold and the Purple Crayon review – sketchy live-action adaptation

  • Closeup of Janine Chang's distressed face in A Place Called Silence

    A Place Called Silence review – suspenseful Malaysian high school horror reboot

  • Victoria Gabrielle Platt (Rainbow Gold) and Kim Weston-Moran (Alma Gold) in Ayoka Chenzira's Alma's Rainbow, a 1993 film restored by the Academy Film Archive with funding by Film Foundation, released by Milestone Films.

    Alma’s Rainbow review – 90s New York tale of Black womanhood and sexuality is worth the wait

  • Joan Chen and Izaac Wang sitting facing each other across a table at a diner.

    Dìdi review – bittersweet Asian American coming-of-age drama

July 2024

  • A somnambulist trance … Werckmeister Harmonies.

    Werckmeister Harmonies review – Béla Tarr’s brooding masterpiece of a town sleepwalking into tyranny

  • Festival of awkwardness … Izaac Wang (second from left) as Chris in Dìdi.

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    Dìdi review – impressive Asian-American teen-angst drama takes the unconventional route

  • Putting the women on a pedestal … Mizan Nunes and Victoria Gabrielle Platt in Alma's Rainbow.

    Alma’s Rainbow review – early 90s coming-of-ager is gem of black female empowerment

  • Three film still

    Three review – Yugoslavian trilogy of tales tracks the horrors of the second world war

  • Outside Noise review – dreamy twentysomethings wander around Europe in charming study

  • I Saw the TV Glow review – powerfully unnerving teen misfit drama

  • Wendy Ide's film of the week
    About Dry Grasses review – rich, engrossing Turkish epic with a twist

  • Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: the best films set in Paris

  • Chariots of Fire review – classic British take on 1924 Paris Olympics is superbly watchable

  • I Saw the TV Glow review – 90s telly-addict chiller set to be future classic

  • The Echo review – heightened reality in the backwoods of Mexico

  • Coma review – vital signs are weak in Bertrand Bonello’s mopey lockdown drama

  • ‘I lied to get the part’: Melvyn Hayes on his ‘angry young man’ beginnings – and It Ain’t Half Hot Mum

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